Passenger-car.



. PATBNTED SEPT. 26, 1905. Y W. G.- ROSS & D. M 2DONALD..

PASSENGER GAR APPLICATION IILED MAY 1, 1905 z Vihmmw (WWW.

UNITED PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM GILLIES ROSS AND DUNCAN'McDONALD, or MONTREAL,

CANADA.

PASSENGER-CAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1905.

'. Application filed May 1, 1905. Serial 110.. 258,372.

v To all whom'it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM GILLIEs Ross and DUNCAN MCDONALD, subjects of His Majesty the King of. Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Montreal, in the Province of Quebec, Dominion of Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Passenger- Gars, of which the following is a specification. Our invention relates to passenger-cars, and more particularly to providing a rapid and .convenient means for passengers entering and leaving a car. Its object is to provide those entering a clear entrance and those leaving a ready exit.

Furthermore, it provides for a more accurate and complete method of collecting fares Figure 1 is a plan view of a car. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a car-platform.

- open side.

The car A has a platform Bclosed at one side, with the steps U descending'from the Two doorways D and E are constructed on either side of the end F. The doorway D nearest the stepshas a short passage G leading into the car, so constructed that the doors at the inner end of the passage, which only open outward, may swing back against the walls of the passageG. The doorway E has doors which swing only inward.

The barrier or hand-rail H runs from ear endswing-door L, opening inward in the platform- 1 wall near the end J. We do not limit our invention to this detail construction, which may be varied without altering the mode of operation or object of the invention. The doors may be dispensed with.

In voperation'the invention provides wide steps for passengers mounting into the car and space 'to stand before entering the car while. paying the fare to. the conductor, who stands on the platform between the doorways D and E. It also provides a clear exitby the doorway D and the steps in front of the barrier H, which are unimpeded and free from being blocked by persons entering the car. -By means of the doors K and L the motorman can permit those at the front of the car to alight. The advantages of this operation are that the conductor remains in the proper place to see that persons get off and on the car safely. He collects the fares as the persons enter the car, by which method he gets every passengers fare and saves time in not having to move about inside the car, which is diflicult and slow if the car is crowded. The conductor is also in the proper position to give the starting and stopping signals to the motorman. The motorman having stopped the car is free to open the door L to allow passengers to alight before starting the carv again. The

car is thus filled or emptied with rapidity, and

Having now described our invention and the mode of operation, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, i's

1. A passenger-car provided with separate entrance and exit on the same platform providing a space between the doorways for the purposes described. w

2. A passenger-car provided with two separatedoorways between the interior and'the platform, and having an intervening space between the doorways, and a barrier dividing the platform and platform-steps and providing a separate passage to each doorway as described.

3. A passenger-car having a platform with steps. on one side, a barrier to divide the platform and steps and doorways on each side of the barrier, separated by an intervening partition as described. I

4. In a passenger-car the combination of a platform with steps on one side thereof, en-

trance and exit doorways separated by an intervening partition and a barrier running from one side of the partition to the central part of the steps as described.

5. In a passenger-car the combination of an extended platform with steps on one side thereof in combination with an exit-doorway near the steps, a middle partition and an entrancedoorway at the closed side of the platform and a barrier from the edge of the partition to the steps adapted to provide a Wider entrance than exit as described.

6. In a passenger-car the combination of an extended platform having steps on one side a short passage-way and exit-doorway near the steps, an intervening middle partition an entrance-doorway near the closed side of the platform, and a barrier running from the edge of the partition to the steps which it divides unequally, the smaller portion being next to the exit-doorway.

7. In a passenger-car the combination of a rear platform provided with entrance and exit doorways separated by a partition, a barrier from partition edge to steps and a front platform provided with an exit-doorway as described.

8. In a passenger-car having a rear platform and exit and entrance doorways between ear and platform a space between exit and entrance doorways adapted to accommodate the conductor for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to. this specification in the presence of the two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM GILLIES ROSS. DUNCAN MCDONALD.

Witnesses C. GANNoN, N. HENDERSON. 

